"Ian Iveson" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote

Keith G wrote

I don't know the answer. Presumably the light is a neon? If so, will any
neon that *will fit* do?

Oh well, if I've ****ed Don off I might as well give up and tell him to
use a couple of paper 'strobe disks' - no other bugger here will have a
clue....

The strobe is timed by a family of little cockroaches. Perhaps the HT has
come adrift from their ferris wheel, or perhaps they are in bed with flu.

Or it is a discharge lamp equally on the margin of being shagged out, and
a torch is just enough to trigger it until it gets warm.


I'd be inclined to go with the 'roach theory...


Just to save you the embarrassment of talking to yourself.


:-)



What colour is the light? Could it feasibly be some other form of
discharge lamp? Neons are commonly used in cheap automotive strobes. The
good ones have the same as electronic camera flash heads...what's that,
xenon?


I've no idea about the actual deck - it was an email I received. (It would
30+ years old - did they have Xenon lamps then??)


I would guess a replacement of same type and physical size should give
similar brightness, require similar voltage, and draw similar current.
Could be wrong. What is it connected to, mains? Watch out for possibility
of dropper resistor incorporated, possibly into a lead.


OK, so what you are saying is send the guy a couple of jpegs so's he can
print out a couple of strobe disks (33/45) to 'set and forget' the speeds
and tell him not to attempt to gouge the deck out to fit a possibly
unavailable replacement bulb into an area which is basically one big,
complicated piece of plastic (and more than just a few wires) just so he can
fret about the dots creeping about according to the particular wind
direction on any given day!!??

OK, sounds good to me - thanks for your help!!


If you want a question answering, you should post a stupid theory about
how you already know the answer.


Good ploy - I'll remember that!! ;-)